Some game anti-cheat can detect VMs and will still block you. Dual booting is the highest compatibility path if that’s what you value the most. Your choice of distro here doesn’t matter too much, if you do go the VM route.
As far as distro choice for day to day needs, I’m a big fan of NixOS. Setup your whole system with a config file, track it with a VCS and you have an extremely consistent and flexible OS that let’s you build nearly any environment you want without messing with the rest of your system.